About
The Artistic Activism Research CoLab (AARC) is an international network of researchers interested in studying the field of creative activism at a global level.
Created in June of 2022, the ARC comprises a group of scholars and practitioners from different world regions. The Colab aims to share and generate resources and new knowledge on artistic activism as experienced locally and internationally.
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Goals
- Build a community of artists, activists, and researchers.
- Generate and share research and knowledge on artistic activism.
- Study the field of artistic activism from an international perspective.
- Broaden our understanding of research practices on artistic activism.
Research approach
- The AARC considers research as a practice that takes place beyond academic spaces and that can take place through artistic practices.
- Research is centered on more than just written formats but also artistic ones, not conventional in the scholarly sense.
- The CoLab believes artists do research, research takes different forms, and that hybrid ways of researching are the norm.
- The group is interested in those new ways in which researchers of artistic activism are working at the global level.
- We recognize research that considers research as part of daily life rather than something that takes place separately.
Values
- Generates a space for collaboration and exchange between peers.
- Fosters a community of researchers on artistic activism, conceiving of research in an expanded way.
- Brings the most exciting, methodologically interesting, and risk-taking research to the forefront.
- Aims to attain a global perspective and understanding of artistic activism as a field.
- Recognizes different languages of artistic activism and ways of engaging with traditions and communities of research and creative practice.
- Brings together research practitioners employing art, social science, and humanities.
- Underlines the importance of recognizing various research methods and formats, from those that employ more arts-based techniques and forms to those that have to do more closely with written work.
- Makes research accessible and usable by researchers, artists, and activists.
- Serves as an interlocutor or translator between the worlds of artists, activists, and researchers that don’t often speak to one another.
- It sheds light on practices not usually found in writing and writings from groups that don’t generally acquire
- It favors dialogue and creative friction between different ways of working, researching, and creating.
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